Fowl play: Untitled Goose Game captures the pure joy of being a huge nuisance

It started out as an in-joke, then the trailer went viral. The team behind the game in which you play a naughty goose takes Guardian Australia behind the scenes

Untitled Goose Game has a very simple pitch: you are a horrible goose and your aim is to ruin everybody's day.

"We thought this was a funny thing, with niche appeal," says programmer Nico Disseldorp of House House, the four-person Melbourne-based development studio behind Untitled Goose Game. "We thought, 'Oh, we'd love a game about a naughty animal.'